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Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1859-11-01

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VOLUME XXIII. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1859. NUMBER 28. popular Kales. THE BOY HERO. - ; BY 8YLVANU3 CCBB, JR. Ik was on Saturday morning, the fifteenth of "December, that little Pul Lavere sat by a low, Smouldering fire in the only apartment of the "cot that had furniture in it. Be was only thirteen years of age, though his face had an older look. There were lines of care upon bis high brow, and the nether lip had a peculiar coin, presscni wnynal in one of his years. lie was ma'lVvn stature, but with much nerve, and a de" cision of character tbat manifested itself in every "look and movement. His eyeVwere bent on the embers trow and he was in dep thought. Near him, in a great armed chair, sat his mother. She was pale and thin, and the low deep, hollow sounding ccugb that ever and anon burst from her throat, told to plainly there was need of a physician. She was not over five and thirty, though) like her boy, she looked older. The lin -of - care and sorrow Were d-cep and - long. - The furniture Cf Ihe room consisted of a small table, two common chairs besides the roe in which the widow sat, and one small bed. The rest of the house was empty. Nearly all the furniture tbey once possessed had been st by the husband and father before I e died, and what few articles he had left, besid-es these in this room, had been sold to pay the rent. Of ornament, there was none unless we notice the old musket that hung on two' wooden backets . over the door, That would have been sold long before, had not Mrs. Lavere clung to it with al' her power of entreaty and jrayor 1; had been her father's musket, and he had carried it brave ly and honorably through the bloodstained fields of Trenton, Princton, Brandywine and German town, and when' dying, he gave it to his daugh-; er. The poor woman clung- to that as the last momento of her better days. 'Paul," spoke the mother, in a week, faint tone, "is there no more wood?" "I can easily get some, mother, when you are ble to spare me. I have some gathered up by the roadside near the pond." "Then you may gonow, I shall get along very well until you come back." So the boy put on his cap, and startedcff-wiih-the sled. He was -gene nearly an hour and when he returned, he bore wood enough to last hrough the rest of the day, and during the mor-iw. A better fire was soonker.fi led, and then Paul moved out the little table aud plnced a loaf of bread on it. lie then made some tea; and when that was done, he asked his mother if she could eat. "This is all,'' he said. ' Not another f rr.mb of food is there in the house But let us eat ; 1 c air beg more. I am used to it now." This was spoken bitterly this last sentence and the widow looked for the moment as though she would "chide her son for it. But the look quickly passed away, for she remembered that for many weary, weary weeks be had supported ber. It was towards the middle of the afternoon that the door of the cot was opened, aud two men entered. Oue of them was Mr. Notworlli, the owner of the dwelling. He was a tall, slim man, with sharp, angular features, thin, grieeled hair, small red eyes, and a large mouth, and a contracted brow. He was a hard, cruel man; unfeeling in the extreme, and seemed toknow of but one incentive to action and that was money The other man was Notworth's tool a stout-burly clown, ready to do anything his master bade him, no loDg as his wages were paid. "Well, Mrs. Lavere, the other week has gone, ' and now t want my house." Thus spoke the landlord, in a harsh imperative tone. "O, good sir," the widow "returned, clasping ber thinr wlite hands, and resting them towards him, ' I am uot able to move cow. Let me stay here yet a while longer." "Can yon pay me the rent?" asked Notworth harshly. "Not now; bat perhaps Paul may find some - work" ; j---" ' "And why hasn't be found work already?" "Because be could not leave me, sir. I have been very sick, and I should have died but for -his attention. O, sir, let us stay " "No! not another hour! I am not to suppor all the paupers in the town! I have a family who wish to move in here at once. You can go to the poor-house!" A lasl we must come to that soon! I had -hoped we might escape that I had hoped it for my poor boy's sake. I had hoped that health might come back to met and that then my boy and myself might both work. O, we could pay yon theol But I am not able to now. I am very aick." . . 'Nonsence! you're well enough to go to the poor house. I have brought my man on purpose to help you there; he will haul you on a sled part of the way." ' " " "But, air the poor-house is fire miles off O, I could not lire to reach it thiscold weatherj WaU until I am stronger. O, I will try to get well as soon as I can!" M'J? TQ 1 won't wait another hour no, not half an hoar! If your husband was " "0, for the love of heaven, sir," gasped the poor woman, clasping her hands again, "do not apeak of him! - He has gone to meet his God, and he has suffered enough." "Pooh!" uttered the unfeeling wretch. "What do you mean by that? I say your husband brought ye down to this by his own acts; and eVes'pote I'm a goinVto support ye, when the town stands ready to support ye? No, no! Now out ye go! Ye can go now as well ai ever. I tell ye the house I must hare," and I will have it. "V r . . . I Ye owe me for two months' rent now, and, of course I'll never get it but ye won't owe me any more. I't e let je sUy here just loog enoo gh . oow morel" The widow bowed her head and burst into tears.' . ' " .. "Oho -ye're comin that, eh? Here, Crow take her up and carry her out. Put her on to yer sled, if she can't walk; end perhaps we'l' get a sleigh wben.we get bp to the house. Take ber right out. It's comin' to a pretty passwhen a man can't have his own honse and after two whole months' notice at least!" Paul Lavere had been standing all this time by the door, where he had gone to let the visitors in, and bis frame had been shaken by emotions such as he had never before experienced. More than once had be been on the point of taking the tongs and springing at the monster, but a sense of his own Weakness withheld htm. But he could bear no more. When those last Words dropped from Notworth's lips, he moved quickly to the other door, and snatched down the old musket. He drew back the hammer, and the sharp click arrested the landlord's attention. "Stand back!" the boy cried, bringing the piece to his shoulder, and aiming it. "Lay a hand on my mother, and I'le shoot you as true as there is a God in heaven) My gun is loaded sir. I loaded it in hopes of shooting a duck for my mother. Don't touch her! In heaven's came, don't! I would not have your blood on my hands; but I do not liel" The by was pale as ashes, hot not a nerve in his body trembled. His large, dark eyes were burning with a fearful intensity, and bis lips were compressed until the prints of the teeth within were plainly to be seen. Of courre a man with such feelings as Not-worth had displayed, could be nothing but a cow" ard. His man Crow fell back in a moment, for j be saw to plainly the meaning of the boy's face. ' Put down that guoP gasped the landlord. "Not until JoU have left the house, sir," answered Paul, in a bushed tone. "Leave us now and I will make some arrangement for anew home; but place your hand oa my. mother, and you die.' ;'...- " ; - Of course the wretch stormed, and threatened and swore; but he dared not tempt the boy, who jooked on him so strangely. "Well, Crow," he said at length, after be found that his course threats had no effect, "we will go now; and when we come again we'll have them with us as will have the law in their hands." "O, mother, you do not blame me!" cried Puub springing to his patent's side after the men bad gone away. "No, no, Paul," the widow returned, gazing Twith pride on hr noble bov. "I cannot blame you; but I fear they will do something dreadful, now." "Fear not on that account, mother. "When I (Ook down your father's gun, 1 had another resolution formed in my souL Wait, for I will try one more thing for aid. I will try the ajsembled Christianity of the town." The-Sabbath bells rang out clear upon the frosty air, and people put on their best garments to go to the house of God and pray. The sleigh bells jingled over the smooth road as the tndre favered ones flew by, and ever and anon a more humble church-goer stepped out into the deep snow to - let the equipage' 'pass. By-and-by a thin, pale face appeared in the entry of the church. Haint you got no better cloths 'n them to wear to meetin', boy?" the sexton asked. "No, sir; I have none others." "Well, never mind. Here, I'll show you a seat," 8nid the sexton. And shortly after this, Mr. David Notworth entered the church. He was habituated in black and the deacons all bowed to. him as he passed them. He did not see the poor boy under the gallery. It seemed a strange coincidence that morning' that the minister should have preached the ser moo he did. He took the whole of the thir. teenth chapter of Paul's First Epistle to the Corinfhrsbs that which is devoted to charity. It was a noble theme,' and the speaker was a warm-hearted, zealou s man: On the present oc. casion, he allowed his eeal to mount into the upper fields of pathos and stirring appeal; and be made it a plain case that all the phases of charity are necessary to Christian life. By-and-by the sermon was closed, and the last hymn was sung. Paul started to his feet and had moved a step forward but he come nigh fainting beneath the task, he had imposed upon himself. In a moment more the benediction would be pronounced, and-then it would be too late. He gave one deep throe be thought of bis mother and his soul was 'strong once more The clergyman was on "his feet when the boy sprang forward. On he went, up the isle until he reached the pulpit 6teps. '-'"'! One word, sir! O, one word! In the name of Him who you serve,' hear me!" The man of God dropped his bands upon the cushion before him, and "gazed upon the boy in speechless astonishment but regaining his composure, he said: "What is it my son?" With one mighty effort, Paul stilled his wildly beating heart, and then raised his head. He knew that then was the time, if ever, for the people were anxious now to hear him." He raised his hands, clasped firmly together, towards the pulpit, and in a wild frantic tone, he uttered: "O, sir, I hare heard you preach to-day such truths as I know are of God, and I hope they are not mere idle sayings here. O, pardon me, and listen. I mean no wrong I only ask you, as you lore your God, to bear me." Here he turned toward the astonished people, and his voice had now become more calm and clear. "You, many of you, knew my father; yon know he is dead. But blame him as jou will, you cannot blame my mother or myself. We were not to blame that he became low and degraded; we were not to blame that; he; became a victim of the fell destroyer. My mother prayed for him on her knees, and never, never, in hie most degraded moments, was she cold or harsh. He died, and he left us poor very poor." "My mother has been sick eick even unto the shadows of' death, and I her, only nurse. I woold work if I coold'leare my mother, hot I canaot. I cm beg I tare t;gd Jhave begged the food that has sustained us. Last night a. man came to turn us out of the house we occupied. He would have turned my mother out into the cold, chill, wintry air, had not I, boy as I am, made him afraid to do the deed. But we Cannot live there always, so. We owe our landlord twelve dollars for rent, and he has sworn with an oath that be would turn us out of doors by force of arms ifyfwe did not leave. 'Twould kill my mother to eymoved now. And now.-1 only ask this take care of my mother and give me work. Do this, and so may God bless you!" This had not beeu spoken connectedly as we have written it, but at spasmodic intervals, broken by sobs and weeping. The effect was electrical. Never before had such a thing been beard of, aud yet few seemed to think it out of place. Most of them were too much moved to think of anything but the story they had heard. That same boy might have told them his simple story in the street, and they would have passed him idly by; but now it came home to their hearts. It seemed almost a test sent by God, to try their faith in the doctrine they bad that: day heard. Ouly Mr. Notworth seemed angry; but tho' every eye had been turned upon bim, yet be dared not speak. Ere long the minister came down, and placed hid hand upon the boy's head, aud then, in a clear and impressive tone, he said: "In as much as ye have done it unto me.' My friends, let us take counsel together after we are dismissed." - . He then prontiunced the benediction, but only David Notworth left the house. What was done in that meeting can be judged by the result. That very night a doctor came to the widow's cot, and with him came a nurse who was to remain. The next day a large '-'sum: of money, and many articles of comfort were sent in. Ere long Paul was taken into the family of a wealthy mechanic as an adopted sou; aud ere the snows of winter were gone, the widowed mother was well again, and was gladly taken into the same family with her son, where she passed the happiest hours of her woman's life. - . It is a simple story, but where will you find a braver boy than was Paul Lavere? Think you he was brave when he faced those two strong men for his mother's protection? So he was But that required, not a moiety of the stern, calm heroism, which sent him, a pale, feeble boy, into that sacred temple, there to face tho multitude,: aud in defiance of all precedent, to pour out the story of his mother's suife rings. But his soul was strong with filial love, and he conquered. People houored him for this strange independence, and as he grew up a tiobi, steady, virtuous youth and man, he was respected by all who knew bim. Yet the sriiile, and the loving em brace of his mother, with her tearful blessings ,r'- upon him, were by far the dearest return he met tor hia work. - ..- Of Mr. Notworth, we will only say, he died on- wept and up mourned, and a spendthrift sob quickly squandered his property. v )asshi0 (bbntts. FEAHFLL DISASTER OX LAKE IIlIIO.V. ; Foundering cf the Propeller Troy, EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. The telegraph has brought the brief announcement of the l068 by foundering of the propeller Troy on Lake Huron, and the almost miraculous escape of three of the crew, and the subsequent rescue of five more of the passengers, the only survivors of the terrible catastrophe. The first male, wheelsman and second engineer, were saved by taking to a yawl that was cbnsidefed un-seaworthy, and in which they were driven by tha force of the gale, across the lake, landing in Goderich, Canada. They arrived at Detroit on Friday last, and from a statement made by them to the reporter of The Detroit Free Press the following details are gathered: The Troy foundered at 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning, about ten miles south of Point aux Barques. The wind was blowing a terrible gale at the time, making a complete breach over the vessel, extinguishing her fires and very soon filling her. The Captain was very cool and firm, and, when he saw that the vessel must go down, made deliberate and ample preparations for the safety of all on board. Had his orders been strictly obeyed the result would have been far different. The company on board consisted of twenty-six persons, of whom eight were passengers. ; v .' ; - ' . . - ' .y; When the vessel began to fill, the Captain se cured the life boat, and placed the passengers, together with the chambermaid and first engi neer, in it. A quarter boat in good condition was assigned to the balance of the crew, the Captain intending to hnd passage m the life boat. There was still a yawl which was unappropriated, but which was considered buseaworthy. In the consternation incident to the moment the quarter boat was launched contrary to orders into which a number of the crew sprang, over loading it, and swamping it. The lifeboat was then launched, and the party apportioned to it taken aboard, when, the propeller giving indica tions of immediately sinking, a rush was made that overloaded the boat, and she had nearly swapped when the Captain drove a portion of the crew back. In the rush, however, the oars were lost, and the boat was left at the mercy of me waves, w nen last seen she was laying broad side to the sea, and probably eould not carry ber load a great while. The yawl was the last boat left, into which George F. Plana ley, the wheelsman and J. Q. Barber, the second engineer, seated themselves. They with the first mate, Marcus Lake, were all who were left on board. Seeing no means of rendering assistance to those in the water, and the propeller settling very fast, the mate got into the yawl just as the hull sunk, and the party were floated off. They had secured one oar, with which they managed to steer their leaky craft They found it impossible to make the Americas, shore, and accordingly headed across the lake. Two of them steered while the third kept busily at work bailing. The boat leaked so badly that it required constant work to keep her fr, rHl besides the sea was rolling very high and they shipped a good deal of water. In this way tbey ran across the lake landing safely at Bayfield, three miles below Goderich, about 7 o'clock in in the evening, having been nearly eleven hours in the yawl. The Troy was owned by A. H. Covert, of Chicago. She bad On twelve thousand bushels ot wheat in bulk, and was bound from Racine. Wisconsin, to Port Colborne, C. W. She left Mar-ki uaw on Monday, and after passing Presque Isle, encountered strong head winds until about 2 o clock cn Tuesday morning, when it suddenly veered about and blew a perfect hurricane from the north west. The vessel rode the gale well until half past five o'clock, when her gangways were burst in by the force of the sea. They were soon agatn replaced and strongly secured, but, the sea increasing in violence, ther were again, stove in. and a clean breach made across the ve sel, bad ly racking uer upper works. The water poured into her hatches in torrents, and, although the pumps were got to work at once, it. was impossi ble to keep ber clear. At a quarter before seven the water had gained on ber so much as to extinguish the fires in her boilers- This soon stoo ped her engines', and the nnfortanate vessel was left at the mercy of the wind and Tvaves. The Captain exhibited the greatest self possession, as did the first mate and tome of the other officers, but the crew: became unmanagea ble with fright, and refused to obey orders. The passengers were terror-stricken as ibey saw an awful death slowly approaching, and although the otheer attempted to pacify them, and assured them that all. would yet be well, they only exhib ited the more consternation. It is. hot probable that any ot them were saved. Ihe mate states that when he last Saw the life boat it was rolling about on the waves, being perfectly at their mercy, its occupants bav:ng no means whatever to guidd it. It probably jfpuudered with all who were in it. The vessel, with her cargo, was fully insured. Of course she is a total loss. At the place, whore sue went aown tne water is probably twenty-five or thirty fathoms deep. A she sunk ber upper works separated from her hull and floated off, but were soon shattered to pieces by the force jof the sea. She was an old vessel, but was considered perfectly safe and seaworihy. Indeed, it does not seem that any lack of strength in the vessel caused the fearful calamity, which can alone be attributed to the terrible violence of the elements, "the male, who is an old sailor on the lakes, states that he never experienced a more terrific gale. Gov. Wise's Speech.. Washington', Oct. 22. Gov.W ise, in his Ikichinoud speech, says he hits a bushel of Cpt. Brown's correspondence, but not all ofit. A carpet bitjr full was taker, to Baltimore end improperly used. - The letters in his possession proved that proiniuenCmen at the north were implicated in the affair; Whether our sister States -in' the' north wilL-alfo'w such men to remain among them unchecked or uupun;ahed remains to be seen. If any one should smuggle off Gerri'.t Smith some ..night and bring him to me, 1 would read him a mora lecture and then send him back home. He hnd remained at Har pers Ferry to prevent-the application "of Lynch Law in Virginia. There was no question of ju risaiction to oe settled, as he bad made up bi I Hi f If t f 111 1 V i mirinftpr'rtetortniniiii-r-tl-iaf , Vi a nrijn. j ,Wra should be tried in Virginia" he would not have obeyed an order to the contrary from the President of. the United States. He was ready to weep when he heard that the outlaws comprised only twelve men and that tbey had taken the town in ten minutes. There wa no cowardice on the part of the people there because their unguarded citizens-were prisoners; but he told them that they had made a mistake, and if Gen. Washington had been a prisoner aud his life imperilled by an attack, he would have risked his own life and other lives as well in ma king an attack without delay. This Kansas Bor der Ruffian made a great mistake as to the dis position ef the slaves to fly to his standard. The Abolitionists cannot comprehend they are held araoug U3 by a patriarchal tenure. The Governor urged the importance of organizing a military force throughput the State and exercising vigilance to guard against the disgrace of a similar surprise. '".?. " .-- - Terrific Powder Mill Explosion. : Wilmington, Del., Oct. 22. The explosion of Dupont's powder . mill, on the Brandy wine,. yesterday, occurred while the men were employed loading powder dust at the press room to be conveyed to one of the other mills to go through another process. A oner horse cart stood opposite the: press toom door, partly loaded, when the press room blew up with a loud crash. The composition house immedi-atolj folloed. A minute or two later the glazing room Went off and two rolling mills followed simultaneously, being five in ad. Seven men were billed ; another man had his arm broken. The wind, nearly North-west and high at the time deadened the sound in the immediate vicinity so much that the men in the upper yard did not cease work on the instant. Two of the men were blown into the Brandywine, one intoa tree, and the headless trunk of another blown on the opposite side of the creek. .-- Of the others nothing could be ascertained. A strange feature in the explosion is the horse was not killed, although Rtandinein proximity to the press room when it went off. The cart to which he was attached, and which was partly loaded with powder dust, was thrown about in fragments. The horse was entirely stripped of bis harness, his hair s'mped off, one eye put out, and one leg broki n. Yet after the smoke and dust cleared -away, he was found -limping about the y.rd exhibiting all the signs of painful agony, which be suffered. To relieve him he was kuocked in the head and kil-led. . '-' "- ".' The Coroner visited the scene of the explosion to look after his interests, but could learn noth ing, as the witnesses were all killed. Their names are Wm. Moran, E. Dougherty, Sweeney, Jacobs, Zubar, John Welsh, and Michael O'Dan- tel. Dnst Floating in the Air. M. Poucher finds that the dust floating in the air contains the detritus of the mineral constit. ueots of the globe, atoms of animals and plants, and the finest debris of all the materials we make use of. But one item he especially points out vis: wheat starch, which is invariably foond in dust, whether old or recent. Surprised at the quantity of it present among the aerial corpuscles, M. Poucbet investigated the dust of all ages and of every locality ; and everywhere he found this wheat starch present. MI have found the starch," be says, " io the meat inaecessible corners of old Gothic churches, mixed with dust blackened by six or eight centuries of existence; I have found it in the palaces and cans of the Thebiad, Where it may have dated from the time of the Pharaohs j I have found it in the tympanic cavity of the ear of a mummified dog, which I had found in a subterranean temple of Up-per Egypt. 1st all countries, in word, where wheat forms the staple of Aod, starch always penetratts into the dast, and is met with in greater er J ootU'i.7''-? fY. j Cancers from Smoking.' The remarkable research made by H. Bonis son upon the danger of smoking has attracted the notice of the French Academie, and ' has been rewarded with high praise. The horrors hitherto unknown, or unacknowledged, with which smokers are threatened, nay more, convicted by M. Bouisson, are sufficient upon bare anticipation to rain the revenue and pipe makers also. Cancer in the mouth, M. Bouisson de clares to have grown so frequent from the use of tobacco that it now forms one of them oi-t dread ed diseases in the hospitals, and at Montpeiler, where M. Bouisson resides, the operation of its extraction forms the principal practice of the surgeons there. In a short period of time, from 1845 to 1859, M. Bouisson himself performed sixty eight operations for cancer in the lips, at the hospital Saint Eloi. . The writers on cancer previous to our day mention the rare occurrence of the disease in the lips, and it has therefore become evident that it must have increased of late years in proportion with the smoking of to bacco. "-':' The use of tobacco rarely, however, produces lip cancer in youth. Almost all Bouisson's pa tients had passed the age of forty. In individu als of the humbler classes who smoke short pipes and tobacco of inferior quality, the disease is more- frequent than with the, rich, who smoke cigars or long pipes. It becomes evident, there fore, that it is owing more to the constant appli cation of heat to the lips than to the inhailingof the nicotine, that the disease ie generated. With the Orientals, who are careful to "maintain the coolness of the mouth-piece, by the transmission of the smoke through perfumed water, the disease is unknown. Matrimonial Ttoubles at XeniaV An announcement appeared Ist week in the News of the marriage of G. W. DufSeld, and IT- t " T O T. . . . miss jiary u. oweney. n seems that the mar riage was followed by a storm that threatened to sweep away all light from the honey moon Wr. John Sweney, the father of the bride, was opposed to the marriage. In order to procure the license, DufSeld bad to swear that the bride was over eignteen years ot age. . As soon as Sweney heard of it, he 'set out post-haste, for town, with a transaript from the Family Register, from which it seemed that the eighth wonder of world had actually come to pass in Xenia, in our very midst, and almost without our knowledge a lady had voluntarily given ber age at more than i really was. JJefSeld said she had told him she was eighteen, but as he had sworn directly that she teas that old, Esq. Kyle committed him for perjury, but he was at once bailed out. At first Sweney was very indignant, threatened to kill DufSeld, and soon, for which ho was himself sent to jail. Becoming more reasonable and having made a reconciliation with the son-in-law, whom he found inevitable, he was fip Jly Jet out again, and all the parties are now oing on their ways joyfully. Xenia News. - Burning Well. - A few weeks since, in digging a well on the firm of Mr. Peter White, in Cass township about three miles and a half southeast of the village of Plymouth, after getting about thirty feet in depthit became necessary to bore to ob tain water. In doing so, a vein of gas was reached, and in taking out the auger, it rushed out in a strong current. The two men in the well were at once overpowered by it, and became unconscious. After they had laid there some time a man was at last found who would go to their relief, and by having a rope fastened around his waist, he went down icto the well and succeded in rescuing them, after one had been in the well over two hours, and the other three. Upon reaching fresh air, they were soon restored to consciousness. The gas still continues tp rush out, Mr. White threw down some lighted shavings when it at once ignited, and ever since has burned 6teadily. The flame is a couple of feet across, and is of exceeding brilliancy and purity. Mansfield Herald, - The Artesian Well at Colambas. " The Artesian Well has reached the depth of 2,323 feet, and the; indications are favorable for again striking a sandstone stratum, but this advantageous feature cannot be pushed to a realization of everybody's wish, for the appreciation is exhausted, and the work will stop Saturday night, until the meeting of the Legislature, when more funds Can be provided. . This is unfortunate, for a stoppage of work is dangerous to the ultimate success of the undertaking, making the well lia ble to fi'tl up. or other causualties may occur. Tms well is now the deepest in the United States, and, with but one exception, the deepest in the world. The following are the depths of the four principal holes in the ground: Well at ' Columbus, Ohio........ .............. 2,328 feet. Louisville, Ky., 2,086 " ; SL Souis, Mo-... .............. .......2,199 Luaumberg, Germany............i2,336 u -:-:; ,: Ohio State Journal. liaw The '.Number of John Rogtfs Children Settled. - The old perplexing query, " How many children had John Rogers ? has at last been definitely and historically settled. At the celebration in Norwich, Chancellor Walworth spoke to the sentiment relative to the first settlers of the town as follows x Chancellor Walworth said it was sixty-six years since he left the towa of Baz rah. ; He named the original settlers of Norwich, Dr. Theophilue Rogers among them, fifth ia descent from the famous Jon n Rogers, the martyr. The Chancellor settled the long-pending dispute about the hamber of John's children ( nine small children and doe at the breast,' the primer says were there nine of tent) by exhuming from- some old history a letter or address from John lc the Government, Id Which Was t passagf t6 this effect i I would thai tkj Worthy wife saizht Come to see me i she has with bf fen children, which are her asi oiae, sad J WooJJ i Lowe's Aerial Ship. The merits of Mr. Lowe's new aerial ship, 1 0 which he intends to cross the Atlantic will be tested in two or three weeks, at New. York, at which time he will ascend from Reservoir Square. Every precaution against accident will be taken. -. While the balloon is driving alonj at the rate of 100 miles an hour it is easy to see that considerable difficulty would attend a debarkation. Apparatus has been devised which Mr. L. says, will so retard the balloon that it cannot prog, ress at the rate of more than three or four miles an hour. Should necessity require the abandon' ment of the air ship, it could be accomplished easily while going at this speed. Casualties by land have been equally provided against, and that he may hot be carried by his accelerated ve ' locity over the British Isles and the continent of Europe into. Asia, Mr. L., has provided bimeslf with several anchors. Two of them are comparatively light, weighing about twenty pounds each. Another, and the sheet anchor of the trio, weighs sixty pounds, and is made of spring steel. This must stop Ihe balloon when it reaches England, or take the Island along with it. Instruments to determine the height of. the air ship from the water, and its velocity and direction, all of which will be available in the darkest night, will be taken along. The Republican Responsible Party FOR THE " TREASON AT HARPER'S FERRY ! The Overwhelming Proof I That the Republican party, headed by such spirits as Seward, Sumner, Beecher, Greeley Wilson, Chase, W'ade, Giddings, Ac., is respon sible for the recent treasonable acts at Harper's Ferry, no longer admits of a doubt. We have frequently laid before the readers of the Banner extracts from the speeches and writings of lead ing Abolitionists throughout the United States' and we here present again to the public such overwhelming proof as will fix the responsibility of the treason and rebellion where it properly belongs. Can honest men, who love the Union and op-hold the Constitution, longer act with such s partj? THE RECORD : OP 8t AVERY AQITA TION. On the 29th of May, 1856, the ultra Aboln tionisU held a Convention in Boston. Garrison then said that to quarrel with the Republican party would be to quarrel with cause and effect "to quarrel ictfA the work of their oicn hands, SISTER ABB i KELLY FOSTER endorsed this sentiment. She said: "I admit that the party is our own pro?env but as every child needs a great deal of reproof ana constant enurt to nnng it up in the way it should go, this party, which is the necessary off. spring oj our ejjoris, neeaj constant admonition aud renuke, and uod giving me strength, I will not e pare it an hodr uutil it is fully educated, re formed, and brought up to the high position of trutn ana duty. The Boston Liberator; Harrison's- psper, in October, 185S, said: . "The Black Republican Fremont party is moulding public sentiment in the right direction for the specific work the Abolitionists are striv ine to accomplish, vix: The -dissolution of tht Union and the Abolition of Slavery throualout the land? The Syracuse Journal, a Fremont paper, of October, 1356, contained the following: ''It is the object of the Republican party to prevent the extension of slavery. Thev waive jor the present, the question of slaverv ichere it now exists. We do not know but it might be well for them to beard the lion in his den, to lav (he axe at the root of the tree, but that is not the point now. It is against the spread of slavery that they now contend. GERRIT SMITH, an Abolitionist and Republican, said in a letter- written in 1856: "But the true question is not what is the past of Mr. Filmore and Col. Fremont on Slavery, but what is their present on this subject; and here we find that whilst CjI. Fremont has outgrown his pro-slavery education, Mr. Fillmow has apostatized from his anti-slavery educat on; that whilst .Co!. Fremont is only ascending the anti- slavery ladder, and will ere long reach the Abol'uicn, or top the round, Mr. Fillmore has descended it. Not a single Abolition will vote for Mr. Fillmore. Ninety-nine in a hundred of them will vote for CJL Fremont, and another hundredth will prefer his election to that of Mr" Buchanan or Mr. Fillmore." A resolution introduced by Fred. Douglas at a Fremont meeting at Syracuse, in October, 1856: "Resolved, That they should rejoice in a sac sessful slave insurrection in the South, and that in killing a slaveholder to obtain freedom, the slave is guilty of no crime; that the slaveholder shoxddlbe made to dream of death in his sleep and to apprehend death in his dish arid teapot that J?re should meet him in his bed, and poison should meet him at his table.n DR. CUTTER, a Republican orator, in 1856. said at Monfpelief: "If raa would carry tho election next Novem ber, k ep bloody outrages in Kansas before the eyes of the people. You have no other plank. oettie this question, and you are defeated. WENDELL PHILLIPS, a Republicans "We confess that we intend to trample nnder foot the institution or this country. Daniel Webster aaysi 'You are a law abiding people,' tbat tne glory or Itew iSngUnd is that it is a law abiding community. Shame on is if this be true; if even the religion of New England sinks as low a its statute book. Bat 1 say we are not a law abiding community. God be thanked for it." - . Adfosgst the Vice Presidents of the Fremont meeting fl this city (Providence, Ri In) on the 10 th insL, lepii 1859,) was the present Lieutenant Governor of the State, who declared a short tiaae'sjace jlt he eouId give ten thousand dollars to 2lsrab tho Union of the Ststcs, PrmidenmFosL ; .. WE5JDCLL PHILLIPS, affain-. Thero it merit ia tbs Repnblicaa pftf. tt it thiu It Is (he fsrjt seetioeal . party ever egas iied ia this country.. It is the North arrayed against tho . sooth. The firs! crack in the ice berg U viaiblef yoaT ill xsklsar it wi a GEN. JAMES WATSON WEBB A BepaS lican leader, said, in the Philadelphia Coareai tion: "If we (meaning the Abolitionists) fall there! (at the ballot-box) what then? We will drive tt (Slavery) back word in hand, and so help sne God! believing that to be right, I am with them HORACE GREELEY, a Republican: "I have no doubt but the free and slave Stales ought to be separated. The Union is not worth supporting in connection with the South." J03IAU QU1NCY Republican, of Boston i "The obligation incumbent on the free States to deliver up fugitive slaves is that harden, and it mast be obliterated from the Constitutional every harard." HORACE MANN, a Republican of Masricha1 setts: "I have only to add, under a full sense of mf responsibility to my country and my God, I de liberately say, better disunion, better a civil or serpiU war, better anything that God in bis rroi viaence snait send, than an extension of the bounds of slavery MR. BANKS,; present Republican Govaraof of Massachusetts: - ''I am not one of that clats of men wis err for the perpetuation of the Union, thou oh I art willing, in a certain stale of circumstances, id let it slide." JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS A Republican Con gressman:- 'I loot forward to the day when there shall a servile insurrection in Ihe South; when tha black man armed with British baronets and led on by British officers shall assert his freedom And wage a war of extermination against hit master; when the torch of .the incendidry shall, light up the town and cities of the South, and BLOT OUI THE LAST VESTIGE OF SLA VERY.. And though I may not mock at their calamity nor laugh when the fear coraeth, yet I will hail it as the dawn of a political tniiieni- am. Ma. BURLING AME A RepubUcan Cos-' gressman : "The times demand, and we must have aa A nti-Slavery Constitution, an Anti-Slavery Biblef and an Anti-Slavery God." BURLINGAME, again: " When we shall have elected a President, ai we will, who will not be the President of a party; nor of a section, but the Tribune of the people,' and after we have exterminated a few more miserable doughfaces from the North, then, if the Slave Seuate, will not give way, we will grind it between the upper aud nether millstones of Ouf power." ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois A lead.' ing Republican of the West: "I believe this Government canaot endure per-mauently half slave and half lite. I do aot expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all bee thin or the other. Either the opponents of slater? will arrest the further spread of it, aha ylace : where the public mind shall rest in the belief tbat it is in the course of ultimate extinction, cf Its advocates will posh forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old aa well as new, North as well as Sooth." SENATOR WILSON, Republican, of Massa' chasetts : " Let us remember that more than three millions of bondmen, groaning under nameless woes demand that we shall ceaso to reprove each other, and that we labor for their deliverance.' " I tell you here to-night, tbat the agitation of this question of human slavery will continue while the foot of a slave presses the soil of the American republic. " We shall change the Supreme Court of the United States, and place men in that Court who' believe with' its pare and immaculate Chief Justice, John Jay, that our prayers will he impious" to Heaven, while we sttitain and support human1 V BENJAMIN F. WADE. U. S. Senator Ironf Ohio, Republican leader:. " There is really no union now between thi North and the South, and he believed no two, uatioos upon the earth eotertaiaed feelings of more bitter rancor towards each other, than tbeBe two nations of the Republic. The enlr salvation if the Union, therefore, was to be found if aivesuny u entirely jrom au taint of Slavery." : SENATOR SUMNER, Republican; of MaUJC- chuSetts : "The (rood citizen, as he reads the require-raents of this act (the fugitive sTave) is filled! with horror. ; Here the path of dot is clear. am bound to disobey this ad. ; - " . - - "Sir, I will not dishonor this home of Pil erims and of the Revolution bv admtiiinff nar. I cannot believe that this bill will be executed: here." Charles Sumner, Oct. 1850, ta BostorU , and Aug. 26, 1852. in the U. &. Senate. SENATOB SUMNER, November 1655 : " Not that I love the Union less, bat freedom more, do I now, in pleading this great cause, in sist that freedom at all hazards aha!! be pre ' served. God forbid that for the saKe bt the Union." W. H. SE WARD, Republican in the Senate of the United States : u The Constitution regulates our StewardshinV The Constitution devotes the domain to ooioe; tof justice, to defence, to welfare, to liberty. But TURKS IS A niGHKB LAW THAX TBS CoXSTsCTIOX which regulates our authority over the domaiu ana ae votes it to tne same Durooses. Ho declares for collision and an irrepreesIbL? conflict between the North and South -hi blood issue : "Thtii these anUffOnistlc systems are contih- uallv coming into closer contact, and collision; results. Shall I tell you what this collision1 means i Tbev who think that it i accidental unnecessary, (he work of interested Of fanatical - agitator, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the.' case altogether. It is an IRREPRESSIBLE .CONFLICT between opposing and enduring for ces. and it means that the United States mtrst a d will, sooner or later, become entirely 4 slave- . holding nation, or entirely a free labor nation.' Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana wili ultimately be tilled by free labcr, nn3 Cti It1 ton and New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts nd Nw Yori most again be surrendered by the far iter to slave! culture and to production of slaves, and Loston? and New York become once more msJlkil fa trade in the bodies and souls of men. It is tie" failure to apprehend this treat truth thai induce4 so many asaeceeafaJ attempts at final com promise between the slave and free Rtatea, and if i the existence of this great fct that refiners d toch pretended cm promise, when snads, and ephemeral. Startling as this saying ctjf appear fo yos fdHow citizens, it U by S3 ct. t an or!!oal of ee4 a modern oaa. - :" fax iHravci CZdRlf SMITH, a EepuLTcaa; c. ;'; j York, Angust 27th, 5 "vi.''- wri'eat

VOLUME XXIII. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1859. NUMBER 28. popular Kales. THE BOY HERO. - ; BY 8YLVANU3 CCBB, JR. Ik was on Saturday morning, the fifteenth of "December, that little Pul Lavere sat by a low, Smouldering fire in the only apartment of the "cot that had furniture in it. Be was only thirteen years of age, though his face had an older look. There were lines of care upon bis high brow, and the nether lip had a peculiar coin, presscni wnynal in one of his years. lie was ma'lVvn stature, but with much nerve, and a de" cision of character tbat manifested itself in every "look and movement. His eyeVwere bent on the embers trow and he was in dep thought. Near him, in a great armed chair, sat his mother. She was pale and thin, and the low deep, hollow sounding ccugb that ever and anon burst from her throat, told to plainly there was need of a physician. She was not over five and thirty, though) like her boy, she looked older. The lin -of - care and sorrow Were d-cep and - long. - The furniture Cf Ihe room consisted of a small table, two common chairs besides the roe in which the widow sat, and one small bed. The rest of the house was empty. Nearly all the furniture tbey once possessed had been st by the husband and father before I e died, and what few articles he had left, besid-es these in this room, had been sold to pay the rent. Of ornament, there was none unless we notice the old musket that hung on two' wooden backets . over the door, That would have been sold long before, had not Mrs. Lavere clung to it with al' her power of entreaty and jrayor 1; had been her father's musket, and he had carried it brave ly and honorably through the bloodstained fields of Trenton, Princton, Brandywine and German town, and when' dying, he gave it to his daugh-; er. The poor woman clung- to that as the last momento of her better days. 'Paul," spoke the mother, in a week, faint tone, "is there no more wood?" "I can easily get some, mother, when you are ble to spare me. I have some gathered up by the roadside near the pond." "Then you may gonow, I shall get along very well until you come back." So the boy put on his cap, and startedcff-wiih-the sled. He was -gene nearly an hour and when he returned, he bore wood enough to last hrough the rest of the day, and during the mor-iw. A better fire was soonker.fi led, and then Paul moved out the little table aud plnced a loaf of bread on it. lie then made some tea; and when that was done, he asked his mother if she could eat. "This is all,'' he said. ' Not another f rr.mb of food is there in the house But let us eat ; 1 c air beg more. I am used to it now." This was spoken bitterly this last sentence and the widow looked for the moment as though she would "chide her son for it. But the look quickly passed away, for she remembered that for many weary, weary weeks be had supported ber. It was towards the middle of the afternoon that the door of the cot was opened, aud two men entered. Oue of them was Mr. Notworlli, the owner of the dwelling. He was a tall, slim man, with sharp, angular features, thin, grieeled hair, small red eyes, and a large mouth, and a contracted brow. He was a hard, cruel man; unfeeling in the extreme, and seemed toknow of but one incentive to action and that was money The other man was Notworth's tool a stout-burly clown, ready to do anything his master bade him, no loDg as his wages were paid. "Well, Mrs. Lavere, the other week has gone, ' and now t want my house." Thus spoke the landlord, in a harsh imperative tone. "O, good sir," the widow "returned, clasping ber thinr wlite hands, and resting them towards him, ' I am uot able to move cow. Let me stay here yet a while longer." "Can yon pay me the rent?" asked Notworth harshly. "Not now; bat perhaps Paul may find some - work" ; j---" ' "And why hasn't be found work already?" "Because be could not leave me, sir. I have been very sick, and I should have died but for -his attention. O, sir, let us stay " "No! not another hour! I am not to suppor all the paupers in the town! I have a family who wish to move in here at once. You can go to the poor-house!" A lasl we must come to that soon! I had -hoped we might escape that I had hoped it for my poor boy's sake. I had hoped that health might come back to met and that then my boy and myself might both work. O, we could pay yon theol But I am not able to now. I am very aick." . . 'Nonsence! you're well enough to go to the poor house. I have brought my man on purpose to help you there; he will haul you on a sled part of the way." ' " " "But, air the poor-house is fire miles off O, I could not lire to reach it thiscold weatherj WaU until I am stronger. O, I will try to get well as soon as I can!" M'J? TQ 1 won't wait another hour no, not half an hoar! If your husband was " "0, for the love of heaven, sir," gasped the poor woman, clasping her hands again, "do not apeak of him! - He has gone to meet his God, and he has suffered enough." "Pooh!" uttered the unfeeling wretch. "What do you mean by that? I say your husband brought ye down to this by his own acts; and eVes'pote I'm a goinVto support ye, when the town stands ready to support ye? No, no! Now out ye go! Ye can go now as well ai ever. I tell ye the house I must hare," and I will have it. "V r . . . I Ye owe me for two months' rent now, and, of course I'll never get it but ye won't owe me any more. I't e let je sUy here just loog enoo gh . oow morel" The widow bowed her head and burst into tears.' . ' " .. "Oho -ye're comin that, eh? Here, Crow take her up and carry her out. Put her on to yer sled, if she can't walk; end perhaps we'l' get a sleigh wben.we get bp to the house. Take ber right out. It's comin' to a pretty passwhen a man can't have his own honse and after two whole months' notice at least!" Paul Lavere had been standing all this time by the door, where he had gone to let the visitors in, and bis frame had been shaken by emotions such as he had never before experienced. More than once had be been on the point of taking the tongs and springing at the monster, but a sense of his own Weakness withheld htm. But he could bear no more. When those last Words dropped from Notworth's lips, he moved quickly to the other door, and snatched down the old musket. He drew back the hammer, and the sharp click arrested the landlord's attention. "Stand back!" the boy cried, bringing the piece to his shoulder, and aiming it. "Lay a hand on my mother, and I'le shoot you as true as there is a God in heaven) My gun is loaded sir. I loaded it in hopes of shooting a duck for my mother. Don't touch her! In heaven's came, don't! I would not have your blood on my hands; but I do not liel" The by was pale as ashes, hot not a nerve in his body trembled. His large, dark eyes were burning with a fearful intensity, and bis lips were compressed until the prints of the teeth within were plainly to be seen. Of courre a man with such feelings as Not-worth had displayed, could be nothing but a cow" ard. His man Crow fell back in a moment, for j be saw to plainly the meaning of the boy's face. ' Put down that guoP gasped the landlord. "Not until JoU have left the house, sir," answered Paul, in a bushed tone. "Leave us now and I will make some arrangement for anew home; but place your hand oa my. mother, and you die.' ;'...- " ; - Of course the wretch stormed, and threatened and swore; but he dared not tempt the boy, who jooked on him so strangely. "Well, Crow," he said at length, after be found that his course threats had no effect, "we will go now; and when we come again we'll have them with us as will have the law in their hands." "O, mother, you do not blame me!" cried Puub springing to his patent's side after the men bad gone away. "No, no, Paul," the widow returned, gazing Twith pride on hr noble bov. "I cannot blame you; but I fear they will do something dreadful, now." "Fear not on that account, mother. "When I (Ook down your father's gun, 1 had another resolution formed in my souL Wait, for I will try one more thing for aid. I will try the ajsembled Christianity of the town." The-Sabbath bells rang out clear upon the frosty air, and people put on their best garments to go to the house of God and pray. The sleigh bells jingled over the smooth road as the tndre favered ones flew by, and ever and anon a more humble church-goer stepped out into the deep snow to - let the equipage' 'pass. By-and-by a thin, pale face appeared in the entry of the church. Haint you got no better cloths 'n them to wear to meetin', boy?" the sexton asked. "No, sir; I have none others." "Well, never mind. Here, I'll show you a seat," 8nid the sexton. And shortly after this, Mr. David Notworth entered the church. He was habituated in black and the deacons all bowed to. him as he passed them. He did not see the poor boy under the gallery. It seemed a strange coincidence that morning' that the minister should have preached the ser moo he did. He took the whole of the thir. teenth chapter of Paul's First Epistle to the Corinfhrsbs that which is devoted to charity. It was a noble theme,' and the speaker was a warm-hearted, zealou s man: On the present oc. casion, he allowed his eeal to mount into the upper fields of pathos and stirring appeal; and be made it a plain case that all the phases of charity are necessary to Christian life. By-and-by the sermon was closed, and the last hymn was sung. Paul started to his feet and had moved a step forward but he come nigh fainting beneath the task, he had imposed upon himself. In a moment more the benediction would be pronounced, and-then it would be too late. He gave one deep throe be thought of bis mother and his soul was 'strong once more The clergyman was on "his feet when the boy sprang forward. On he went, up the isle until he reached the pulpit 6teps. '-'"'! One word, sir! O, one word! In the name of Him who you serve,' hear me!" The man of God dropped his bands upon the cushion before him, and "gazed upon the boy in speechless astonishment but regaining his composure, he said: "What is it my son?" With one mighty effort, Paul stilled his wildly beating heart, and then raised his head. He knew that then was the time, if ever, for the people were anxious now to hear him." He raised his hands, clasped firmly together, towards the pulpit, and in a wild frantic tone, he uttered: "O, sir, I hare heard you preach to-day such truths as I know are of God, and I hope they are not mere idle sayings here. O, pardon me, and listen. I mean no wrong I only ask you, as you lore your God, to bear me." Here he turned toward the astonished people, and his voice had now become more calm and clear. "You, many of you, knew my father; yon know he is dead. But blame him as jou will, you cannot blame my mother or myself. We were not to blame that he became low and degraded; we were not to blame that; he; became a victim of the fell destroyer. My mother prayed for him on her knees, and never, never, in hie most degraded moments, was she cold or harsh. He died, and he left us poor very poor." "My mother has been sick eick even unto the shadows of' death, and I her, only nurse. I woold work if I coold'leare my mother, hot I canaot. I cm beg I tare t;gd Jhave begged the food that has sustained us. Last night a. man came to turn us out of the house we occupied. He would have turned my mother out into the cold, chill, wintry air, had not I, boy as I am, made him afraid to do the deed. But we Cannot live there always, so. We owe our landlord twelve dollars for rent, and he has sworn with an oath that be would turn us out of doors by force of arms ifyfwe did not leave. 'Twould kill my mother to eymoved now. And now.-1 only ask this take care of my mother and give me work. Do this, and so may God bless you!" This had not beeu spoken connectedly as we have written it, but at spasmodic intervals, broken by sobs and weeping. The effect was electrical. Never before had such a thing been beard of, aud yet few seemed to think it out of place. Most of them were too much moved to think of anything but the story they had heard. That same boy might have told them his simple story in the street, and they would have passed him idly by; but now it came home to their hearts. It seemed almost a test sent by God, to try their faith in the doctrine they bad that: day heard. Ouly Mr. Notworth seemed angry; but tho' every eye had been turned upon bim, yet be dared not speak. Ere long the minister came down, and placed hid hand upon the boy's head, aud then, in a clear and impressive tone, he said: "In as much as ye have done it unto me.' My friends, let us take counsel together after we are dismissed." - . He then prontiunced the benediction, but only David Notworth left the house. What was done in that meeting can be judged by the result. That very night a doctor came to the widow's cot, and with him came a nurse who was to remain. The next day a large '-'sum: of money, and many articles of comfort were sent in. Ere long Paul was taken into the family of a wealthy mechanic as an adopted sou; aud ere the snows of winter were gone, the widowed mother was well again, and was gladly taken into the same family with her son, where she passed the happiest hours of her woman's life. - . It is a simple story, but where will you find a braver boy than was Paul Lavere? Think you he was brave when he faced those two strong men for his mother's protection? So he was But that required, not a moiety of the stern, calm heroism, which sent him, a pale, feeble boy, into that sacred temple, there to face tho multitude,: aud in defiance of all precedent, to pour out the story of his mother's suife rings. But his soul was strong with filial love, and he conquered. People houored him for this strange independence, and as he grew up a tiobi, steady, virtuous youth and man, he was respected by all who knew bim. Yet the sriiile, and the loving em brace of his mother, with her tearful blessings ,r'- upon him, were by far the dearest return he met tor hia work. - ..- Of Mr. Notworth, we will only say, he died on- wept and up mourned, and a spendthrift sob quickly squandered his property. v )asshi0 (bbntts. FEAHFLL DISASTER OX LAKE IIlIIO.V. ; Foundering cf the Propeller Troy, EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. The telegraph has brought the brief announcement of the l068 by foundering of the propeller Troy on Lake Huron, and the almost miraculous escape of three of the crew, and the subsequent rescue of five more of the passengers, the only survivors of the terrible catastrophe. The first male, wheelsman and second engineer, were saved by taking to a yawl that was cbnsidefed un-seaworthy, and in which they were driven by tha force of the gale, across the lake, landing in Goderich, Canada. They arrived at Detroit on Friday last, and from a statement made by them to the reporter of The Detroit Free Press the following details are gathered: The Troy foundered at 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning, about ten miles south of Point aux Barques. The wind was blowing a terrible gale at the time, making a complete breach over the vessel, extinguishing her fires and very soon filling her. The Captain was very cool and firm, and, when he saw that the vessel must go down, made deliberate and ample preparations for the safety of all on board. Had his orders been strictly obeyed the result would have been far different. The company on board consisted of twenty-six persons, of whom eight were passengers. ; v .' ; - ' . . - ' .y; When the vessel began to fill, the Captain se cured the life boat, and placed the passengers, together with the chambermaid and first engi neer, in it. A quarter boat in good condition was assigned to the balance of the crew, the Captain intending to hnd passage m the life boat. There was still a yawl which was unappropriated, but which was considered buseaworthy. In the consternation incident to the moment the quarter boat was launched contrary to orders into which a number of the crew sprang, over loading it, and swamping it. The lifeboat was then launched, and the party apportioned to it taken aboard, when, the propeller giving indica tions of immediately sinking, a rush was made that overloaded the boat, and she had nearly swapped when the Captain drove a portion of the crew back. In the rush, however, the oars were lost, and the boat was left at the mercy of me waves, w nen last seen she was laying broad side to the sea, and probably eould not carry ber load a great while. The yawl was the last boat left, into which George F. Plana ley, the wheelsman and J. Q. Barber, the second engineer, seated themselves. They with the first mate, Marcus Lake, were all who were left on board. Seeing no means of rendering assistance to those in the water, and the propeller settling very fast, the mate got into the yawl just as the hull sunk, and the party were floated off. They had secured one oar, with which they managed to steer their leaky craft They found it impossible to make the Americas, shore, and accordingly headed across the lake. Two of them steered while the third kept busily at work bailing. The boat leaked so badly that it required constant work to keep her fr, rHl besides the sea was rolling very high and they shipped a good deal of water. In this way tbey ran across the lake landing safely at Bayfield, three miles below Goderich, about 7 o'clock in in the evening, having been nearly eleven hours in the yawl. The Troy was owned by A. H. Covert, of Chicago. She bad On twelve thousand bushels ot wheat in bulk, and was bound from Racine. Wisconsin, to Port Colborne, C. W. She left Mar-ki uaw on Monday, and after passing Presque Isle, encountered strong head winds until about 2 o clock cn Tuesday morning, when it suddenly veered about and blew a perfect hurricane from the north west. The vessel rode the gale well until half past five o'clock, when her gangways were burst in by the force of the sea. They were soon agatn replaced and strongly secured, but, the sea increasing in violence, ther were again, stove in. and a clean breach made across the ve sel, bad ly racking uer upper works. The water poured into her hatches in torrents, and, although the pumps were got to work at once, it. was impossi ble to keep ber clear. At a quarter before seven the water had gained on ber so much as to extinguish the fires in her boilers- This soon stoo ped her engines', and the nnfortanate vessel was left at the mercy of the wind and Tvaves. The Captain exhibited the greatest self possession, as did the first mate and tome of the other officers, but the crew: became unmanagea ble with fright, and refused to obey orders. The passengers were terror-stricken as ibey saw an awful death slowly approaching, and although the otheer attempted to pacify them, and assured them that all. would yet be well, they only exhib ited the more consternation. It is. hot probable that any ot them were saved. Ihe mate states that when he last Saw the life boat it was rolling about on the waves, being perfectly at their mercy, its occupants bav:ng no means whatever to guidd it. It probably jfpuudered with all who were in it. The vessel, with her cargo, was fully insured. Of course she is a total loss. At the place, whore sue went aown tne water is probably twenty-five or thirty fathoms deep. A she sunk ber upper works separated from her hull and floated off, but were soon shattered to pieces by the force jof the sea. She was an old vessel, but was considered perfectly safe and seaworihy. Indeed, it does not seem that any lack of strength in the vessel caused the fearful calamity, which can alone be attributed to the terrible violence of the elements, "the male, who is an old sailor on the lakes, states that he never experienced a more terrific gale. Gov. Wise's Speech.. Washington', Oct. 22. Gov.W ise, in his Ikichinoud speech, says he hits a bushel of Cpt. Brown's correspondence, but not all ofit. A carpet bitjr full was taker, to Baltimore end improperly used. - The letters in his possession proved that proiniuenCmen at the north were implicated in the affair; Whether our sister States -in' the' north wilL-alfo'w such men to remain among them unchecked or uupun;ahed remains to be seen. If any one should smuggle off Gerri'.t Smith some ..night and bring him to me, 1 would read him a mora lecture and then send him back home. He hnd remained at Har pers Ferry to prevent-the application "of Lynch Law in Virginia. There was no question of ju risaiction to oe settled, as he bad made up bi I Hi f If t f 111 1 V i mirinftpr'rtetortniniiii-r-tl-iaf , Vi a nrijn. j ,Wra should be tried in Virginia" he would not have obeyed an order to the contrary from the President of. the United States. He was ready to weep when he heard that the outlaws comprised only twelve men and that tbey had taken the town in ten minutes. There wa no cowardice on the part of the people there because their unguarded citizens-were prisoners; but he told them that they had made a mistake, and if Gen. Washington had been a prisoner aud his life imperilled by an attack, he would have risked his own life and other lives as well in ma king an attack without delay. This Kansas Bor der Ruffian made a great mistake as to the dis position ef the slaves to fly to his standard. The Abolitionists cannot comprehend they are held araoug U3 by a patriarchal tenure. The Governor urged the importance of organizing a military force throughput the State and exercising vigilance to guard against the disgrace of a similar surprise. '".?. " .-- - Terrific Powder Mill Explosion. : Wilmington, Del., Oct. 22. The explosion of Dupont's powder . mill, on the Brandy wine,. yesterday, occurred while the men were employed loading powder dust at the press room to be conveyed to one of the other mills to go through another process. A oner horse cart stood opposite the: press toom door, partly loaded, when the press room blew up with a loud crash. The composition house immedi-atolj folloed. A minute or two later the glazing room Went off and two rolling mills followed simultaneously, being five in ad. Seven men were billed ; another man had his arm broken. The wind, nearly North-west and high at the time deadened the sound in the immediate vicinity so much that the men in the upper yard did not cease work on the instant. Two of the men were blown into the Brandywine, one intoa tree, and the headless trunk of another blown on the opposite side of the creek. .-- Of the others nothing could be ascertained. A strange feature in the explosion is the horse was not killed, although Rtandinein proximity to the press room when it went off. The cart to which he was attached, and which was partly loaded with powder dust, was thrown about in fragments. The horse was entirely stripped of bis harness, his hair s'mped off, one eye put out, and one leg broki n. Yet after the smoke and dust cleared -away, he was found -limping about the y.rd exhibiting all the signs of painful agony, which be suffered. To relieve him he was kuocked in the head and kil-led. . '-' "- ".' The Coroner visited the scene of the explosion to look after his interests, but could learn noth ing, as the witnesses were all killed. Their names are Wm. Moran, E. Dougherty, Sweeney, Jacobs, Zubar, John Welsh, and Michael O'Dan- tel. Dnst Floating in the Air. M. Poucher finds that the dust floating in the air contains the detritus of the mineral constit. ueots of the globe, atoms of animals and plants, and the finest debris of all the materials we make use of. But one item he especially points out vis: wheat starch, which is invariably foond in dust, whether old or recent. Surprised at the quantity of it present among the aerial corpuscles, M. Poucbet investigated the dust of all ages and of every locality ; and everywhere he found this wheat starch present. MI have found the starch," be says, " io the meat inaecessible corners of old Gothic churches, mixed with dust blackened by six or eight centuries of existence; I have found it in the palaces and cans of the Thebiad, Where it may have dated from the time of the Pharaohs j I have found it in the tympanic cavity of the ear of a mummified dog, which I had found in a subterranean temple of Up-per Egypt. 1st all countries, in word, where wheat forms the staple of Aod, starch always penetratts into the dast, and is met with in greater er J ootU'i.7''-? fY. j Cancers from Smoking.' The remarkable research made by H. Bonis son upon the danger of smoking has attracted the notice of the French Academie, and ' has been rewarded with high praise. The horrors hitherto unknown, or unacknowledged, with which smokers are threatened, nay more, convicted by M. Bouisson, are sufficient upon bare anticipation to rain the revenue and pipe makers also. Cancer in the mouth, M. Bouisson de clares to have grown so frequent from the use of tobacco that it now forms one of them oi-t dread ed diseases in the hospitals, and at Montpeiler, where M. Bouisson resides, the operation of its extraction forms the principal practice of the surgeons there. In a short period of time, from 1845 to 1859, M. Bouisson himself performed sixty eight operations for cancer in the lips, at the hospital Saint Eloi. . The writers on cancer previous to our day mention the rare occurrence of the disease in the lips, and it has therefore become evident that it must have increased of late years in proportion with the smoking of to bacco. "-':' The use of tobacco rarely, however, produces lip cancer in youth. Almost all Bouisson's pa tients had passed the age of forty. In individu als of the humbler classes who smoke short pipes and tobacco of inferior quality, the disease is more- frequent than with the, rich, who smoke cigars or long pipes. It becomes evident, there fore, that it is owing more to the constant appli cation of heat to the lips than to the inhailingof the nicotine, that the disease ie generated. With the Orientals, who are careful to "maintain the coolness of the mouth-piece, by the transmission of the smoke through perfumed water, the disease is unknown. Matrimonial Ttoubles at XeniaV An announcement appeared Ist week in the News of the marriage of G. W. DufSeld, and IT- t " T O T. . . . miss jiary u. oweney. n seems that the mar riage was followed by a storm that threatened to sweep away all light from the honey moon Wr. John Sweney, the father of the bride, was opposed to the marriage. In order to procure the license, DufSeld bad to swear that the bride was over eignteen years ot age. . As soon as Sweney heard of it, he 'set out post-haste, for town, with a transaript from the Family Register, from which it seemed that the eighth wonder of world had actually come to pass in Xenia, in our very midst, and almost without our knowledge a lady had voluntarily given ber age at more than i really was. JJefSeld said she had told him she was eighteen, but as he had sworn directly that she teas that old, Esq. Kyle committed him for perjury, but he was at once bailed out. At first Sweney was very indignant, threatened to kill DufSeld, and soon, for which ho was himself sent to jail. Becoming more reasonable and having made a reconciliation with the son-in-law, whom he found inevitable, he was fip Jly Jet out again, and all the parties are now oing on their ways joyfully. Xenia News. - Burning Well. - A few weeks since, in digging a well on the firm of Mr. Peter White, in Cass township about three miles and a half southeast of the village of Plymouth, after getting about thirty feet in depthit became necessary to bore to ob tain water. In doing so, a vein of gas was reached, and in taking out the auger, it rushed out in a strong current. The two men in the well were at once overpowered by it, and became unconscious. After they had laid there some time a man was at last found who would go to their relief, and by having a rope fastened around his waist, he went down icto the well and succeded in rescuing them, after one had been in the well over two hours, and the other three. Upon reaching fresh air, they were soon restored to consciousness. The gas still continues tp rush out, Mr. White threw down some lighted shavings when it at once ignited, and ever since has burned 6teadily. The flame is a couple of feet across, and is of exceeding brilliancy and purity. Mansfield Herald, - The Artesian Well at Colambas. " The Artesian Well has reached the depth of 2,323 feet, and the; indications are favorable for again striking a sandstone stratum, but this advantageous feature cannot be pushed to a realization of everybody's wish, for the appreciation is exhausted, and the work will stop Saturday night, until the meeting of the Legislature, when more funds Can be provided. . This is unfortunate, for a stoppage of work is dangerous to the ultimate success of the undertaking, making the well lia ble to fi'tl up. or other causualties may occur. Tms well is now the deepest in the United States, and, with but one exception, the deepest in the world. The following are the depths of the four principal holes in the ground: Well at ' Columbus, Ohio........ .............. 2,328 feet. Louisville, Ky., 2,086 " ; SL Souis, Mo-... .............. .......2,199 Luaumberg, Germany............i2,336 u -:-:; ,: Ohio State Journal. liaw The '.Number of John Rogtfs Children Settled. - The old perplexing query, " How many children had John Rogers ? has at last been definitely and historically settled. At the celebration in Norwich, Chancellor Walworth spoke to the sentiment relative to the first settlers of the town as follows x Chancellor Walworth said it was sixty-six years since he left the towa of Baz rah. ; He named the original settlers of Norwich, Dr. Theophilue Rogers among them, fifth ia descent from the famous Jon n Rogers, the martyr. The Chancellor settled the long-pending dispute about the hamber of John's children ( nine small children and doe at the breast,' the primer says were there nine of tent) by exhuming from- some old history a letter or address from John lc the Government, Id Which Was t passagf t6 this effect i I would thai tkj Worthy wife saizht Come to see me i she has with bf fen children, which are her asi oiae, sad J WooJJ i Lowe's Aerial Ship. The merits of Mr. Lowe's new aerial ship, 1 0 which he intends to cross the Atlantic will be tested in two or three weeks, at New. York, at which time he will ascend from Reservoir Square. Every precaution against accident will be taken. -. While the balloon is driving alonj at the rate of 100 miles an hour it is easy to see that considerable difficulty would attend a debarkation. Apparatus has been devised which Mr. L. says, will so retard the balloon that it cannot prog, ress at the rate of more than three or four miles an hour. Should necessity require the abandon' ment of the air ship, it could be accomplished easily while going at this speed. Casualties by land have been equally provided against, and that he may hot be carried by his accelerated ve ' locity over the British Isles and the continent of Europe into. Asia, Mr. L., has provided bimeslf with several anchors. Two of them are comparatively light, weighing about twenty pounds each. Another, and the sheet anchor of the trio, weighs sixty pounds, and is made of spring steel. This must stop Ihe balloon when it reaches England, or take the Island along with it. Instruments to determine the height of. the air ship from the water, and its velocity and direction, all of which will be available in the darkest night, will be taken along. The Republican Responsible Party FOR THE " TREASON AT HARPER'S FERRY ! The Overwhelming Proof I That the Republican party, headed by such spirits as Seward, Sumner, Beecher, Greeley Wilson, Chase, W'ade, Giddings, Ac., is respon sible for the recent treasonable acts at Harper's Ferry, no longer admits of a doubt. We have frequently laid before the readers of the Banner extracts from the speeches and writings of lead ing Abolitionists throughout the United States' and we here present again to the public such overwhelming proof as will fix the responsibility of the treason and rebellion where it properly belongs. Can honest men, who love the Union and op-hold the Constitution, longer act with such s partj? THE RECORD : OP 8t AVERY AQITA TION. On the 29th of May, 1856, the ultra Aboln tionisU held a Convention in Boston. Garrison then said that to quarrel with the Republican party would be to quarrel with cause and effect "to quarrel ictfA the work of their oicn hands, SISTER ABB i KELLY FOSTER endorsed this sentiment. She said: "I admit that the party is our own pro?env but as every child needs a great deal of reproof ana constant enurt to nnng it up in the way it should go, this party, which is the necessary off. spring oj our ejjoris, neeaj constant admonition aud renuke, and uod giving me strength, I will not e pare it an hodr uutil it is fully educated, re formed, and brought up to the high position of trutn ana duty. The Boston Liberator; Harrison's- psper, in October, 185S, said: . "The Black Republican Fremont party is moulding public sentiment in the right direction for the specific work the Abolitionists are striv ine to accomplish, vix: The -dissolution of tht Union and the Abolition of Slavery throualout the land? The Syracuse Journal, a Fremont paper, of October, 1356, contained the following: ''It is the object of the Republican party to prevent the extension of slavery. Thev waive jor the present, the question of slaverv ichere it now exists. We do not know but it might be well for them to beard the lion in his den, to lav (he axe at the root of the tree, but that is not the point now. It is against the spread of slavery that they now contend. GERRIT SMITH, an Abolitionist and Republican, said in a letter- written in 1856: "But the true question is not what is the past of Mr. Filmore and Col. Fremont on Slavery, but what is their present on this subject; and here we find that whilst CjI. Fremont has outgrown his pro-slavery education, Mr. Fillmow has apostatized from his anti-slavery educat on; that whilst .Co!. Fremont is only ascending the anti- slavery ladder, and will ere long reach the Abol'uicn, or top the round, Mr. Fillmore has descended it. Not a single Abolition will vote for Mr. Fillmore. Ninety-nine in a hundred of them will vote for CJL Fremont, and another hundredth will prefer his election to that of Mr" Buchanan or Mr. Fillmore." A resolution introduced by Fred. Douglas at a Fremont meeting at Syracuse, in October, 1856: "Resolved, That they should rejoice in a sac sessful slave insurrection in the South, and that in killing a slaveholder to obtain freedom, the slave is guilty of no crime; that the slaveholder shoxddlbe made to dream of death in his sleep and to apprehend death in his dish arid teapot that J?re should meet him in his bed, and poison should meet him at his table.n DR. CUTTER, a Republican orator, in 1856. said at Monfpelief: "If raa would carry tho election next Novem ber, k ep bloody outrages in Kansas before the eyes of the people. You have no other plank. oettie this question, and you are defeated. WENDELL PHILLIPS, a Republicans "We confess that we intend to trample nnder foot the institution or this country. Daniel Webster aaysi 'You are a law abiding people,' tbat tne glory or Itew iSngUnd is that it is a law abiding community. Shame on is if this be true; if even the religion of New England sinks as low a its statute book. Bat 1 say we are not a law abiding community. God be thanked for it." - . Adfosgst the Vice Presidents of the Fremont meeting fl this city (Providence, Ri In) on the 10 th insL, lepii 1859,) was the present Lieutenant Governor of the State, who declared a short tiaae'sjace jlt he eouId give ten thousand dollars to 2lsrab tho Union of the Ststcs, PrmidenmFosL ; .. WE5JDCLL PHILLIPS, affain-. Thero it merit ia tbs Repnblicaa pftf. tt it thiu It Is (he fsrjt seetioeal . party ever egas iied ia this country.. It is the North arrayed against tho . sooth. The firs! crack in the ice berg U viaiblef yoaT ill xsklsar it wi a GEN. JAMES WATSON WEBB A BepaS lican leader, said, in the Philadelphia Coareai tion: "If we (meaning the Abolitionists) fall there! (at the ballot-box) what then? We will drive tt (Slavery) back word in hand, and so help sne God! believing that to be right, I am with them HORACE GREELEY, a Republican: "I have no doubt but the free and slave Stales ought to be separated. The Union is not worth supporting in connection with the South." J03IAU QU1NCY Republican, of Boston i "The obligation incumbent on the free States to deliver up fugitive slaves is that harden, and it mast be obliterated from the Constitutional every harard." HORACE MANN, a Republican of Masricha1 setts: "I have only to add, under a full sense of mf responsibility to my country and my God, I de liberately say, better disunion, better a civil or serpiU war, better anything that God in bis rroi viaence snait send, than an extension of the bounds of slavery MR. BANKS,; present Republican Govaraof of Massachusetts: - ''I am not one of that clats of men wis err for the perpetuation of the Union, thou oh I art willing, in a certain stale of circumstances, id let it slide." JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS A Republican Con gressman:- 'I loot forward to the day when there shall a servile insurrection in Ihe South; when tha black man armed with British baronets and led on by British officers shall assert his freedom And wage a war of extermination against hit master; when the torch of .the incendidry shall, light up the town and cities of the South, and BLOT OUI THE LAST VESTIGE OF SLA VERY.. And though I may not mock at their calamity nor laugh when the fear coraeth, yet I will hail it as the dawn of a political tniiieni- am. Ma. BURLING AME A RepubUcan Cos-' gressman : "The times demand, and we must have aa A nti-Slavery Constitution, an Anti-Slavery Biblef and an Anti-Slavery God." BURLINGAME, again: " When we shall have elected a President, ai we will, who will not be the President of a party; nor of a section, but the Tribune of the people,' and after we have exterminated a few more miserable doughfaces from the North, then, if the Slave Seuate, will not give way, we will grind it between the upper aud nether millstones of Ouf power." ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois A lead.' ing Republican of the West: "I believe this Government canaot endure per-mauently half slave and half lite. I do aot expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all bee thin or the other. Either the opponents of slater? will arrest the further spread of it, aha ylace : where the public mind shall rest in the belief tbat it is in the course of ultimate extinction, cf Its advocates will posh forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old aa well as new, North as well as Sooth." SENATOR WILSON, Republican, of Massa' chasetts : " Let us remember that more than three millions of bondmen, groaning under nameless woes demand that we shall ceaso to reprove each other, and that we labor for their deliverance.' " I tell you here to-night, tbat the agitation of this question of human slavery will continue while the foot of a slave presses the soil of the American republic. " We shall change the Supreme Court of the United States, and place men in that Court who' believe with' its pare and immaculate Chief Justice, John Jay, that our prayers will he impious" to Heaven, while we sttitain and support human1 V BENJAMIN F. WADE. U. S. Senator Ironf Ohio, Republican leader:. " There is really no union now between thi North and the South, and he believed no two, uatioos upon the earth eotertaiaed feelings of more bitter rancor towards each other, than tbeBe two nations of the Republic. The enlr salvation if the Union, therefore, was to be found if aivesuny u entirely jrom au taint of Slavery." : SENATOR SUMNER, Republican; of MaUJC- chuSetts : "The (rood citizen, as he reads the require-raents of this act (the fugitive sTave) is filled! with horror. ; Here the path of dot is clear. am bound to disobey this ad. ; - " . - - "Sir, I will not dishonor this home of Pil erims and of the Revolution bv admtiiinff nar. I cannot believe that this bill will be executed: here." Charles Sumner, Oct. 1850, ta BostorU , and Aug. 26, 1852. in the U. &. Senate. SENATOB SUMNER, November 1655 : " Not that I love the Union less, bat freedom more, do I now, in pleading this great cause, in sist that freedom at all hazards aha!! be pre ' served. God forbid that for the saKe bt the Union." W. H. SE WARD, Republican in the Senate of the United States : u The Constitution regulates our StewardshinV The Constitution devotes the domain to ooioe; tof justice, to defence, to welfare, to liberty. But TURKS IS A niGHKB LAW THAX TBS CoXSTsCTIOX which regulates our authority over the domaiu ana ae votes it to tne same Durooses. Ho declares for collision and an irrepreesIbL? conflict between the North and South -hi blood issue : "Thtii these anUffOnistlc systems are contih- uallv coming into closer contact, and collision; results. Shall I tell you what this collision1 means i Tbev who think that it i accidental unnecessary, (he work of interested Of fanatical - agitator, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the.' case altogether. It is an IRREPRESSIBLE .CONFLICT between opposing and enduring for ces. and it means that the United States mtrst a d will, sooner or later, become entirely 4 slave- . holding nation, or entirely a free labor nation.' Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana wili ultimately be tilled by free labcr, nn3 Cti It1 ton and New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts nd Nw Yori most again be surrendered by the far iter to slave! culture and to production of slaves, and Loston? and New York become once more msJlkil fa trade in the bodies and souls of men. It is tie" failure to apprehend this treat truth thai induce4 so many asaeceeafaJ attempts at final com promise between the slave and free Rtatea, and if i the existence of this great fct that refiners d toch pretended cm promise, when snads, and ephemeral. Startling as this saying ctjf appear fo yos fdHow citizens, it U by S3 ct. t an or!!oal of ee4 a modern oaa. - :" fax iHravci CZdRlf SMITH, a EepuLTcaa; c. ;'; j York, Angust 27th, 5 "vi.''- wri'eat